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To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:40:35 +0200."
             <200704052040.36016.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:42:34 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org

Again, your assumption is that he did it on purpose, and thus, you
are calling him a thief.


> On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:28, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > > > But when dealing with a parallel open source effort, you went right to
> > > > the jugular.  I bet you deal nicer with companies.
> > > 
> > > There was no deal with you!
> > 
> > I don't understand this sentence of yours.
> 
> There was no agreement with you to use my code.
> 
> > Do you make deals with companies?
> 
> Not yet. Maybe in future. Who knows...
> 
> > Do you do those deals publically?
> 
> That depends on what the company does.
> If the company illegally distributes my code to the public,
> I _will_ contact them in public as well.
> 
> If they contact me in private _before_ distributing the code,
> I will respond in private.
> 
> The exact same thing would have been true for you.
> But you did _not_ do any effort to contact me before distributing
> my code.
> 
> > What are you saying?
> > 
> > Was Marcus suppose do to have some sort of deal with you?
> 
> The deal was: He asks for relicensing-permission on
> a particular faction of my code and I ACK or deny it.
> 
> I explained the exact deal more than once.
> 
> -- 
> Greetings Michael.